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Stocks were carried out feet first after Russia was kicked out of the G7. (Presumably, given Comrade Putin's pinko politics, with a good stiff whack from the soul of My Left Foot. That is, unless someone suddenly found Nikita Khrushchev's footwear.) One thing is clear -- namely, that no one was watching that Daniel Day-Lewis film on Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), which nose-dived an S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX)-worst 6.67% and is sliding an additional 7.20% even as we speak. Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) bucked a remorseless tide of red ink, surging 6.70% after more existential agitating from Carl Icahn. The hedge fund honcho was actually an unlikely philosophy major, whose 1957 Princeton thesis went by the name of "The Problem of Formulating an Adequate Explication of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning." So much for that carefully cultivated image of a Brooklyn street scrapper. As such, a penny for his thoughts as Descartes Systems (NASDAQ:DSGX), a software services stock named after a 17th-century French philosopher, fell 1.44% despite a broker boost. Can it really be possible that Rene is trailing Spinoza in the March Madness Overrated Philosophers Bracket? Surely it Kant. Elsewhere, much like the empiricists, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman has many more questions than answers. This, as the stock lost 1.00% on her imprecise response to a recent inquiry. As Janet Yellen could have told her, stay on script. It is always the questions that get you into trouble.

Today in economics, new home sales for February and March consumer confidence are each out at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. In earnings action, Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL), Steelcase (NYSE:SCS), and Walgreen (NYSE:WAG) all release results.

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